Quotes and Sayings about Wood & Lumber

A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. And clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.

A society grows great when old men plant trees the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people, that's it, the end.

We believe the trees should remain where they do best. In the woods, in the ground. Alive.

Our spirits need simple things, the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system - the lungs of the planet - and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

What I want is for the humans and the forest to live in peace!

Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc. No one cares for the woods anymore.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

Every once in a while, it's important to adjust your altitude.

Welcome to colorful Colorado!

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

You're never too old to be young.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Wine has its uses... like revealing someone's true colors, for example.

Don't depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it.